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I usually use inner carbon blades exclusively, but today I tested out a FZD copycat setup. It is the Sanwei 75 outer alc blade with Jupiter 3 H41 on fh and DragonGrip on bh. I played quite well with this. My FH loop was fast and crisp. Backhand punch and loop was good. Block was good. It's my...

What is the difference in the overall performance between a "regular" ESN rubber like Donic M1 and the "bonus thick" sponge with thinner topsheet rubber like Z1? When you make the sponge thicker and topsheet thinner, what advantages do you gain? What do you sacrifice? I don't like these Z1 and...

I came upon this Japanese rubber review. They seem to think very highly of this rubber from Sword. Does Sword generally good rubbers?

Happy New Years to everyone. What are your New Year's goals for 2024? Please share to inspire the rest of us. My goal for 2023 was to get to 1900 level. For most of 2023, I felt like I was hovering around the 1820-1850 level. I would fairly easily defeat 1800 players, but I wasn't always...

Has anybody boosted Hammond Z2 before? How does it respond to booster? I have a sheet of Z2, but its cut too small for my blade. I want to use seamoon to expand it so it fits my blade better. Performance-wise, I actually don't think the rubber needs booster at all. But I'm worried that applying...

https://a.aliexpress.com/_ms0VktW Just saw this. It kinda looks cool, with putple and blue sponge. I could use a 40d sticky fh rubber. But ive never tried double fish rubbers before. Are they up to the standard of Loki?

There's a guy I often play with, I think he's like 1800-1850 level player. I typically beat him 80% of times. He's a strange player, because he has a really difficult serve, but isn't too good apart from that. His main serve is a fast, spinny, long pendulum serve. This is usually a sidespin...

Since I don't have a coach, I often kinda discover TT philosophy on my own with playing experience. One thing I have discovered is that it is a lot easier to return serve with the BH. Particularly, it's much easier to flick and generate spin with the bh, especially on short or half long balls...

Has anybody tested the difference between Koto vs Limba surfaces for inner fibre blades? If so, what are your findings? I recently bought a Loki Arthur Pro (Koto-ayous-zlc-ayous) to compare with my favorite blade, the Stuor Harimoto clone (Limba-ayous-zlc-ayous). I was curious how different the...

Do you use the ball until it cracks? Or do you throw it away after it loses its grip and becomes smooth?

The funniest part is when Xuxin won a point using the handle butt

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtMXSEu I just noticed this new rubber is out! Looks cool

How good can he be? Best chopper in history? Can he reach world #1? Can he win the world championships?

This girl just popped up on my YT feed. I was really surprised to see her. I saw her years ago as a little kid playing against Miwa Harimoto with her crazy grip. I never thought she would make it this far. I thought that eventually at the higher levels her strange grip would catch up to her. But...

Recently I have been tested 37d dhs rubbers for bh. I actually find them to be really good! I have tested H3, H8, and H8-80. To me, H8 is best, H3 is 2nd, and H80 is still pretty good but 3rd. All of them need to be boosted, but are pretty fast with booster. H8 is the fastest. 37d doesnt feel...

Southeast Asia is really strong in badminton. Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and to a lesser degree Vietnam have produced many strong badminton players. But how come we haven't seen many TT players from these countries break through into the top 10? Are their TT programs just underfunded? I...

Seamoon seems to be the cheapest booster. I just bought 2 bottles for about $11 each from the Aliexpress singles day sale. But how is the actual boosted effect of seamoon vs the more expensive boosters like Dianchi ($50), and Haifu Black oil and Haifu yellow oil?

This looks like a pretty compelling matchup on paper.